Mikhail Gorbachev

Ronald Reagan 's Policy Towards Foreign Affairs Ronald Reagan was the 40th President of the United States of America. His two terms as president were one of the most important times in American history. Reagan was a very unorthodox thinker compared to other politicians. Unlike other politicians, Reagan did not see things as black and white. Instead, he thought there was a gray area. Reagan had a distinct vision, which he typically pursued with or without the support of his advisors. Three…

and how the West handled these consequences. Prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall, Mikhail Gorbachev appointed Boris Yeltsin to be part a governmental institution.…

Everyone rejoiced together. The fall of the Berlin Wall caused the Soviet Union to collapse almost a year later. Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union president, submitted his resignation causing the Republics of the Soviet Union to disperse. The removal of the Berlin Wall generated a chain reaction of events in several countries. In this case, it sped up the collapse of the…

end of the Cold War, the newly chosen Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev came to power. As a drastically different type of leader than his predecessors, Gorbachev’s main goal was to reform the existing Soviet political system and work to stimulate the then struggling economy. In order to do so, he introduced two “policies known as glasnost (political openness) and perestroika (economic reform).” Through these two concepts, Gorbachev hoped to ease confining social government standards…

Communism also faces a grim future due to the hostile environment found in the world economy today. The increasing significance of globalization has led to a connected world market. To be successful in the world today, one must adapt to the ever-changing nature of the economy. This requires research, connections, and communication that Marx’s system does not contain. A communist economy is built on production and manufacturing, but citizens are given little incentive to use their talents to…

highest they’ve ever been between America and the Soviet Union. Nuclear weapons were on high alert during this time which caused fear all around the globe. Luckily enough, the Cold War ended in the early 1990’s due to multiple factors. Reagan and Gorbachev have both been credited by historians for ending the Cold War, but who really deserves the most credit? Looking at certain…

I wrote one “source-based argumentative essay” in high school: my final essay from sophomore English. The guidelines were to write a four to eight page paper on any topic of your choice, but the thesis of the paper had to come across clearly. At the time, my personal goals were to write about something no one else would, as well as get an A in the class. As a future collegiate writer, I feel as though I have the habits and potential strengths to be successful, but my biggest weakness is that I…

Gorbachev focused on the policies of Glasnost, Perestroika, democratization. Gorbachev started a new era in Russia of Soviet government as well as life. His main two slogans were Glasnost, which meant openness, and Perestroika, which meant restructuring. In a speech explaining Perestroika, he…

the period preceding to the collapse of the Soviet Union. The date January 20, 1990 may not be a significant date for the world history, but definitely is of a high importance for the people of Azerbaijan. On that day Soviet government headed by Gorbachev committed a terrible criminal act in the capital city of Azerbaijan (then the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan) – Baku. That tragic night, without any notice or declaration of the state of emergency, Soviet Army units and interior troops entered…

restructuring and openness in the Soviet Union came from its new elected leader: Mikhail Gorbachev, who The previous tensions from the Cold War between the democratic West and the communist East were lowered after the USSR showed its weakness by not being able to keep control in Berlin. After the wall was tore down, East and West relaxed their military and political competition. The radical change in East Europe came with Mikhail Gorbachev, who had different political ideals from the previous…